Pharaohs
a pharaoh who ruled from about the age of 9 to 19. His tomb remained untouched until 1922 when it was discovered.
King Tut or Ramses the Great
Who is Tutankhamun?
the watering of dry land by means of canals or pipes.
What is Irrigation?
the group with the least amount of people on the ancient Egyptian social pyramid.
Soldiers or Pharaohs
What are the Pharaohs?
a mixture of tiny bits of rock and soil deposited by a river that would have been found in Lower Egypt.
What is sod, silt, or permafrost
What is silt?
the practice of one person owning another person.
What is slavery?
a pharaoh who organized a two-year trading expedition to Punt.
Hatshepsut or Khufu
Who is Hatshepsut?
a reed plant that grows along the Nile, which can be used to make paper.
What is Papyrus?
The group that has the most people in it on the ancient Egyptian social pyramid.
Peasants or slaves
What is the slaves?
fertile flat land made of silt left behind as the river drains into a larger body of water.
peninsula, plateau, or delta
What is a Delta?
the title used by the rulers of ancient Egypt.
What is pharaoh?
the pharaoh that ordered the building of the Great Pyramid.
Ramses the Great or Khufu
Who is Khufu?
a system of writing that was made up of about 800 picture-signs.
What is Hieroglyphics?
The group that is immediately above the slaves on the ancient Egyptian social pyramid.
Scribes or farmers
What is the farmers?
the southern area of ancient Egypt.
Upper Egypt or lower Egypt
What is Upper Egypt?
the way people manage money and resources for the production of goods and services.
government, economy, trade
What is economy?
the pharaoh that unified Lower and Upper Egypt and became the first pharaoh.
Khufu or Menes
Who is Menes?
the people who went to school in ancient Egypt, starting at about the age of ten.
Boys or Girls
Who are boys?
the group that is immediately underneath the Pharaoh on the ancient Egyptian social pyramid.
soldiers or government officials
What is the government officials?
the direction the Nile River flows from Upper Egypt to Lower Egypt.
North or south
What is North?
a group of people who go on a trip for a set reason.
Journey or expedition
What is an expedition?
the pharaoh who drove the Hyksos out of the Nile Delta and got the land back for Egypt.
Ahmose or Hatshepsut
Who is Ahmose?
is a form of specific transportation that the Egyptians are said to have invented that people use today.
What is a sailboat?
Name one of the four groups that are in the middle of the ancient Egyptian social pyramid.
What are the soldiers, scribes, merchants, and artisans?
the place that Egypt conquered twice because of its gold.
Sudan, Nubia, or Kadesh
What is Nubia?
the joining of separate parts into one.
Unification or alliance
What is unification?